Mater dei monet quandam reginam mundanam moribus, quod conuertat se ad deum, dando de se deo folia, flores et fructum virtutum in loquendo et audiendo bona et amando deum et proximum.
The Kernel of Mercy
The Mother of God describes her merciful intervention in rescuing a soul that was once bitter and rotten.
The Mother of God says to the bride: "Tell the queen that I, the Mother of Mercy, have received her like a kernel inside a rotten apple—one that wasn't beautiful to look at, but bitter to taste and tasteless to swallow." Still, I planted her in a distant land so that she might bear good fruit.
The Tree of Virtues
The queen is instructed to cultivate the virtues of holy listening, speech, and love, likened to the leaves, flowers, and fruit of a tree.
Just as trees naturally produce leaves, flowers, and fruit, she ought to bear the leaves of virtue—specifically, by gladly listening to the words of God, which are useful to the soul and like the leaves of trees. She should also speak of things that honor God and benefit her neighbors, for then she bears beautiful flowers. Let her also love God and her neighbor, and then she has the best fruit.
Turning Toward the Beloved
The queen is called to abandon worldly vanity and offer her soul as the sweetest fruit to the Son.
But she currently speaks freely about trivial things and matters that help her gain the world's honor and favor; therefore, she should turn to me, specifically by offering to my Son—through her hearing, her speech, and her works of charity—the fruit that tastes sweetest to him: her own soul, which he desires with all his heart to possess.
Read the original Latin
Mater dei loquitur sponse dicens: Dic regine, quod ego mater misericordie recepi eam tanquam nucleum in pomo corrosum, qui non erat pulcer ad videndum sed amarus ad gustandum et insipidus ad gluciendum.
Verumtamen plantaui eam in terram longinquam, vt portaret fructum bonum.
Ergo sicut arbores proferunt de se folia, flores et fructus, sic ipsa debet portare folia virtutum, scilicet audiendo libenter verba dei, que vtilia sunt anime et similia foliis arborum.
Loquatur eciam illa, que honoris sunt dei et vtilitatis proximorum, quia tunc ipsa portat pulcros flores. Diligat quoque deum et proximum et tunc habet optimum fructum.
Sed ipsa nunc loquitur libenter scurrilia et ea, quibus acquirere potest mundi honorem et fauorem, et ideo conuertat se ad me, scilicet portando filio me auditu et locucione et opere caritatis fructum illum, qui ei dulcius sapit, hoc est animam suam, quam precordialiter desiderat possidere.
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